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The devils banquet described in four sermons [brace], 1. The banquet propounded, begun, 2.…The deuills banket described in foure sermons [brace], 1. The banket propounded, begunne, 2.…
The devils banquet described in four sermons [brace], 1. The banquet propounded, begun, 2. The second service, 3. The breaking up of the feast, 4. The shot or reckoning, [and] The sinners passing-bell, together with Physic from heaven / published by Thomas Adams ...The deuills banket described in foure sermons [brace], 1. The banket propounded, begunne, 2. The second seruice, 3. The breaking vp of the feast, 4. The shot or reckoning, [and] The sinners passing-bell, together with Phisicke from heauen / published by Thomas Adams ...
London: printed by Thomas Snodham for Ralph Mab, 1614
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE Sinners Passing-Bell. OR A Complaint from Heaven for Mans Sins. The fifth Sermon.
THE Sinners Passing-Bell. OR A Complaint from Heauen for Mans Sinnes. The fift Sermon.
JEREM. 8.22. Is there no Balm in Gilead? Is there no Physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
IEREM. 8.22. Is there no Balme in Gilead? Is there no Phisitian there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recouered?
This is a world to make Physicians rich; if men loved not their purse, better then their health. For the world waxeth old, and old age is weak and sickly. As when death begins to seize upon a man, his brain by little and little groweth out of order; his mind becomes ⟨p. 204⟩cloudy and troubled with fantasies; the channels of his blood, and the radical moisture (the oil that fe•ds the lamp of his life) begin to dry up: all his limbs loose their former agility. As the little world thus decays in the great, so the great decays in it self: that Nature is fain to lean on the staff of Art, nd to be held up by mans industry. The signs, which Christ hath given to fore-run the worlds ruin, are called by a Father,